Сейджи Арао — Книга 2: Мастер Шантидева, занятие 32

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Курс: Seiji Arao — Book 2: Master Shantideva (Diamond Cutter Classics) — «Руководство к образу жизни бодхисаттвы» Мастера Шантидевы
Урок: занятие 32 — Bodhisattva Way of Life, Session 19
Ведёт: Геше Майкл Роуч; перевод: Сейджи Арао
Дата и место: 10 февраля 2025, место не указано
Источник: YouTube, канал Diamond Cutter Classics, плейлист PL1KVm5jgTljSp6vDnCG3LZlYhA2STM3UR; расшифровка TurboScribe
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[Speaker 3]
Oh sorry. Oh, I don't see. I'm sorry about that.

I'm sorry about that.

[Speaker 1]
Sure. No, no I'll do it. Yeah yeah.

Sure.

[Speaker 2]
Okay. Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, just a second. Hey everyone. Francisco, do I need to join?

Necesito meterme algún wifi en especial o el que sea.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Okay.

[Speaker 2]
Okay.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, so last time actually we didn't get to translate anything new. So some of these questions are recycled. Let's see.

Who remembers what is Master Shantideva's prayer for his body as he's giving it away? Anyone remember? Uh-huh.

Yep. Can you repeat what they're saying, Seiji? Sorry, what?

Oh, can you just say what they're saying if they answer from the audience? Oh, sorry, yeah. Words say that you would give it away.

Oh, what was the second part that he said? Uh, oops. May it be with a purpose.

Because he said, yeah, I've already given my body away, so I don't care anymore if you beat me or ridicule it. However, he said something on the next verse. Yeah, so words say that whatever you do, you get happiness from it.

And basically he said, whatever you do may not be without purpose, which is the same thing. All right. How does Master Shantideva transform the situation of people criticizing, harming, or disparaging him?

Uh-huh. But then he takes it to the next level, which is very, transform is the key word here. Where, oh, so Stanley said, may you get the wish for enlightenment as you criticize him.

Actually, the way I saw it is that he wanted to develop the wish in himself, because to see that they come, I mean, open to interpretation, but coming to give back, to respond to criticism with wanting them to reach their goals, basically. I hope to get the seeds to bring them all to fortune of Buddhahood. Okay.

Then in the next chapters, how does Master Shantideva expand this prayer beyond offering his own body? Oh, it means to say, may I be the protector of those who need protection. Yes, he said that, but after that, so if you think of, I give my body, but then I want to give something more.

Yes, slave, yes. Then, well, that is correct. What I was going for is he goes from his body, saying, may my body becomes all the elements of the land and I give it to people so that they can have sustenance.

So I don't know, I found it super beautiful. That he just keeps going and going. So pretty cool.

Okay. Dunmei. Yeah, without purpose, without a point.

Kase. So ridicule, criticize? Criticize, ridicule, yes.

Chungwachempo. I know it's- Great elements, yeah. Yes, the great elements.

Awesome. All right. So, last time we stopped here, Geshe-la, but there was still some translation that we didn't get to check.

Yeah. Wait. Oh yeah, this one.

Well, did we finish the verse before that? I believe we did. Yeah.

I know. Yeah, let's do 20, 3.20. Okay, please read, Seiji, the West Chinese line, and then we'll ask someone else to read. Okay.

SA SOG CHUNGWACHEMPO THANG NAM KA SHING TU BDAG PAR YANG SEMS CAN PAR DU MED PAR YID Good. NAM MA'ANG NYER TSUL ZHIG YANG HO SOGS Yeah, good. What's CHUNGWACHEMPO, Mahabhuta?

The great elements. Yeah, and you got to think carbon, nitrogen, okay? For them, these are the constituent chemicals of the world.

Okay? Oxygen, nitrogen, carbon. Okay?

What are the other SA SOG? Yeah, SA CHUG MED LUNG. Earth, water, fire, and wind.

And then when they refer to the elements, they're often called Mahabhuta, which means the great elements, okay? Meaning they're in all matter. All matter is composed of these four elemental forces, which as we've said many times, are not foolish.

They're not some stupid idea that there's earth particles in your pizza. It just means cohesion, gravity, fluidity, temperature. It's a very sophisticated system, okay?

So this, and this is an unbelievable prayer, okay? It's a very... It's not, it's one that maybe you could learn or you could try to learn.

Okay. Namkha. Namkha is sometimes the fifth element, akasha, which is space, okay?

Which you can think of as negativity that allows space, allows things to happen. The arena that allows things to happen. Then that fifth element, namkha, is dark space.

Eternal? Yeah, unchanging.

[Speaker 2]
Even according...

[Speaker 1]
Even according to the Abhidharma system, even according to the Lama system, space is unchanging, okay? And he says, sem chen bak di meypa, what's bak di meypa? Bak mey.

Yeah, no borders, no limits, okay? Living beings with no boundaries. Meaning, if you took off in a spaceship, you could travel forever and not reach the end of living beings, okay?

Not possible. It's infinite. It's literally infinite, okay?

So he says, I understand that the number of living... By the way, you meet them when you see emptiness directly, okay? You travel, impossibly, you travel infinite space, okay?

Those living beings who have no border, there's no limit, okay, in space. Now I'll give you a $100 question. May I be the...

Oh, now Nour's like, hmm. Ah, may I be the four elements as the fifth element? $100 question.

Everyone? May I be the four elements as the fifth element? Oh.

It's a beautiful riddle. No limits, no... That's okay.

May I be the four elements? He says, doctor, doctor. Forever.

Okay, Nick, 100 bucks, okay? I'll pay you when I'm over there surfing.

[Speaker 2]
All right.

[Speaker 1]
Okay, it's a beautiful, beautiful line. May I be the four elements as the fifth, okay? So the fifth is easy.

May I always be, because the fifth element never changes. And it's infinite. Infinite and unchanging.

But what does it mean may I be the four elements? May I be the carbon? May I be the oxygen?

May I be the nitrogen? It's such an awesome prayer. That's such an awesome prayer.

May I be oxygen molecules? May I be nitrogen molecules? May I be the carbon in every living being?

And then may I near soul, never. May I sustain them? May I sustain them as the atoms in their bottom?

It's a prayer to be the vitamins in the Cheerios. Okay, really, it's awesome. I love it.

May I be the four elements for the fifth in everybody's Cheerios? May I be what keeps them alive? And may it never end.

It's a beautiful thing. May I be the, may I be the fertility of the soil in every country and help them grow the crops? Like, it's a beautiful, it's unbelievable.

Okay, nam mang means, you know, may I emanate in many forms to feed people, like rice or wheat or, see, I mean, it's very, very awesome. It's an unbelievable prayer, okay? And it's a great meditation.

It's a wonderful meditation. May I be the carbon in all the wheat plants in all the world or something like that, okay? All right, you got to work on the translation.

Good luck. Okay. Yeah, bhuta means the great elements and bhutani is the neuter plural nominative, okay?

Bhuta, say bhuta. Bhuta. Is the elements of existence.

And then bhutani, it's almost always plural because they're almost always talking about the four elements. Bhutani. It comes from bhu.

And then ani, I want you guys to learn ani as plural, okay? Bhutani. All right?

All right. Probably you'll learn, review that in the Sanskrit class, right? I can't talk.

Okay, who's going to be next? Let's see. Oops.

Oh, Tin, are you translating?

[Speaker 2]
No, I don't translate.

[Speaker 1]
Can you please read? Yeah, thank you. What did I do?

Yeah, I see it now, yeah. THE SHIN NAM KHE THEY DUG PAS SEM CHEN GAM LA NAM KUN THU THAM CHEN YANG NGAN DE BA THU DAG NI NYE SO'I RGYUD YANG SO Good, nice. Nice, nice, Tin.

Yeah. You're amazing. THE SHIN, like that.

Okay, NAM KHA? Space. Yeah, don't forget it can mean space.

The end of space, NAM KHE. THEY DUG word, that's, I'm not sure you know this one. It's an instrumental on DA, okay?

Yeah, to the end of space. To this place touched by the end of space, which means it's a pun, right? There is no such thing.

THEY DUG, so THEY DUG means the last inch of the universe, which is a joke. There is no such thing. It's a joke.

Good luck translating. SEM CHEN NAM LA SEM CHEN GAM LA NAM KUN THU Yeah, this GAM is very, very difficult. It can mean all the worlds, but it could also mean the elements inside the bodies of the people living on those worlds.

Cool, right? He has found one word, which doctor, by the way, doctor, which can convey the limits of space and the atoms in a person's body. And he wants it to be ambiguous.

It's very powerful. Okay, he's unbelievable. Okay, doctor, in all of those GAMS, which could mean in all of those galaxies, but it also could mean in all of those atoms inside their bodies.

It's so beautiful, okay? In all of those, may I NYER TSUL RGYUD. May I be the vitamins which keep them healthy.

Okay? Planets and cells. I'll cover planets and cells.

Everything else you can work on. Okay? It's beautiful.

It's really beautiful. Now, he sets a time limit. Yeah, until each being reaches Buddhahood, meaning here he says nirvana, okay?

Until they reach nirvana, I want to be the vitamins in their body, and I want to be the planets on which they stand. That's all. Okay?

It's so beautiful. I think those two verses would be worth memorizing. If you want to learn Sanskrit, you can easily memorize the Sanskrit.

Okay. There's some notes I have here of words that you could learn if you want to learn Sanskrit. My idea is organic Sanskrit.

We call it organic Sanskrit. My teacher made me memorize Whitney's grammar, 800 pages. And I would rather that you meet these words one by one, and every time you come to class, you memorize two, three words.

And then, you know, suddenly one day you'll be reading Sanskrit. Okay? If you're interested in Sanskrit.

So it's not like a big, heavy load, you know? Just two, three words every time we have a class. Okay?

And it will build up. You will... I chose the words that will plant the best seeds.

Okay? So say akasha. Akasha.

Akasha. Akasha. Ah, as the beginning word, means very much, which is why you can't say ananda.

Yeah, nanda means happy. Ananda means Mr. Unhappy. His name is ananda, which means super happy.

So initial ah is super. Initial uh, which is a short a, is unhappy. Okay?

So akasha means very much cut open. Kus is a root. There's 800 roots in Sanskrit.

All words are built on them in a predictable way. It's called generative grammar. If you understand the rules, you can predict every Sanskrit word.

Okay? It's unbelievable. Okay?

And they never vary. All the variations were cut out in a certain century by Patanjali. Okay?

So kus means to cut open. It comes into Indo-European, which is Proto-Sanskrit. It's the mother language of Sanskrit.

It's called Indo-European. And there's the root is kus, okay? And it came into Castrate Castle because castles are made of separated spaces.

And chaste, which means separated from false. Okay? So almost all English comes from Sanskrit.

And it's enjoyable, I think, to learn it. And you can almost predict the Sanskrit word. So it's really beautiful to read Sanskrit.

Long A as an enhancer makes it stronger. Dhatu means comp. It means element of the body or element of space.

And it comes from dha. And a variant on that is d, like samadhi. Okay?

We're studying that in advanced level five. No. The re...

Level three on violence. Okay. Deed and doom, in fact, all come from that.

Okay. All right. Let's go to the next one, Seiji.

Who's going to read it? Let's see. Well, Tanning?

Oh, thanks, Seiji. Thank you. Ji tar yon gyi de she kyi jang chub tuk gi kye pa tang jang chub sem pe la pa la de dak rim shin ne pa tar Nice.

Nice reading. Very nice. Ji tar means just like.

Ngun gyi In the past, those desheks, su gatas, okay, the Buddhas, they kye pa chang chub sem. They gave birth to chang chub sem. What did you do?

Why didn't they spell it here as tuk? It's the honorific version of sem. It's the high, high language for sem.

You can say sem to normal people in your mind, but you don't talk about a Buddha's sem. You say, huh, you're a tuk, and you always spell tuk. Okay?

So, he's saying Bodhi's super cheater. Okay? I got it.

Chang chub tuk. Chang chub sem pe la pa la. La pa?

Yeah, the trainings. Training seminar. It can mean a course of learning, and it can mean the vows.

It's ambiguous. Maybe it should always be that way. And rimshin nepa, like Lam Rim.

Step by step. Yeah, step by step. Okay?

They practiced bodhichitta step by step. They didn't start out with great bodhichitta, and they worked on it. Okay?

The word I'd like you to learn here is below. Say shik sha. Shik sha is the Sanskrit for lapa, meaning training.

A training. It's very, very famous in the name of a certain book called Shiksha Samuccaya. Say the shik sha.

Shik sha. Samuccaya. Samuccaya.

Family, Samuccaya. Companion. Yeah, companion.

Okay? He's translating Abhidharma Samuccaya. Okay?

So, it's a very, very famous book of Lapa Kumbh Mithi, but Lapa Kumbh Mithi, the companion of the training. Ten hundred bucks. Except for a word.

I'm sorry, man. You should pretend to not know sometimes. Oh, the three trainings.

Who can give me the Lapa Samuccaya? The three training of the morality, meditation, and wisdom? Yeah, who was that?

Tin Nguyen. I'll give a hundred to Vietnam and a hundred to Ukraine. France.

Ukraine, France, Chicago. Okay? Yeah.

Now, to prove you deserve it, what order would you put them in? What order? Which one would you say comes first, and which comes second, which comes third?

Yeah, the morality comes first, and then meditation, and wisdom. Good. Okay.

And I, you know, whenever I think of those three, it's easy to see the connection of wisdom to meditation, but the connection of meditation to morality is not so obvious. And you cannot meditate if you're not trying to keep your ten good deeds. You can't.

It will never work. The more you're trying to be a moral person, the better your meditation will be, period. There's no exceptions.

Okay? Cool. All right.

Who's going to read? St. G? Let's see.

Oh, there's someone in the room. Jacqueline? No.

No barking. Nick, no barking. I'm sorry about that.

I'm sorry about that.

[Speaker 2]
DE BZHIN DROG LA PHANG SDOM DU PHEN THAN DU YANG CHUB SEMS NI KHYAD GYIS GZHING DE BZHIN DU NI LHAG LHAG PA LANG BRIN PA BZHIN DU LAB PAR GYIS Nice.

[Speaker 1]
Let's check the translation. DE BZHIN DU, just as they did. Nice.

Good. Just as they who? Those Buddhas with the aspiration to benefit mankind.

Yeah, good. Okay. Chant this.

DE BZHIN DU I will also try to reach Bodhichitta, and I will also try to follow those three trainings, okay? In their proper order, meaning stop hurting other people, then try to meditate, and then it'll be a lot better. Okay?

Cool? And then meditate, and you'll understand emptiness a lot better, okay? But he says, DE BZHIN DU He's acknowledging that they should be done in the proper order.

What's the... Yeah. Maybe not what we imagined.

I just mean to admit or recognize that connection between not hurting other people and meditating successfully. Okay? All right.

Say Krama. Krama. It means refreshing.

So Krama means steps, step by step. How do you say Lam Rim in Sanskrit? Yeah.

Lam Rim Krama. Okay. And then when you add an M, it becomes what we call an indeclinable, which means it's not a formal grammar case.

It just makes it adverbial. But step by step. In English, we say by.

In Sanskrit, you just put an M on the end. Krama. In steps.

Krama. Indeclinable means you don't have to try to decline an S and M. Yeah.

Okay. The full form is Yathar Krama. Say Yathar.

Yathar Krama. Yathar means in the proper Krama step. Okay?

In the proper steps. Okay? Cool.

Who's going to read the next one? Chunsang? Really?

Okay. Yeah. Lodang denpa means mati, I guess.

Anyway, intelligent people. If you have a brain, it says. Okay.

If you have a brain. Rab dang chak gyu sem sum ne. Yeah.

I'm not sure about the dung word. I wonder if it's dumb. Evam grahitva.

Matiman. Gorachito. Matiman.

Rab de. How's that?

[Speaker 2]
Rab de.

[Speaker 1]
Yeah, this is pretty confusing. Maybe Rab de makes more sense. Yeah.

I think it's... I don't know. Oh, Rab dang.

D-D-A-N-G. Yeah. Okay, yeah.

Pasana. Yeah. Okay, it's misspelled.

Interesting. Yeah, this spelling doesn't make any sense, but if you say D-V-A-N-G, it means bodhichitta, which is very clear like water, or like clear light, like the clear light. Dhamma.

Okay. Detanglo, which is pasana. Detanglo denpa yi.

If your bodhichitta is clear as mountain stream water, okay. juk kyang gyeparab chaway chiyo sen yi de da sen kya do. Yeah, I don't know why juk kyang gyeparab.

Do you have an idea? Yeah. There's a before and after, right?

Maybe? No. Oh, I see what it means.

Even at the end, you should work to expand it. Okay? Even at the end, you should work to expand it.

Juk here means at the tail end. Sen yi de da sen kya do. I was focusing on sen kya.

Say sen kya. Sen kya. It's a very important word, and it's a rare word, and it's a difficult word.

Sen kya means, I remember when I learned it. You want to hear the story? So I didn't have a dictionary, I had a teacher, and I just glued myself to him.

Every time I saw a word I didn't know, I asked him, what's sen kya? So he had two main students living with him at the time. He spoke Tibetan with the other one, and he demanded that I speak English with him.

And I was pissed off, and I was jealous of the other guy. So I developed this really good idea. I subscribed to a Tibetan newspaper, and I read it at the breakfast table and ignored them.

And then every time I saw a word I didn't know, I'd say, what is sen kya anyway? You see what I mean? And he said, sen kya is when you give a medal to a soldier.

And you, what do you call that? You honor them, award them? It's like an award, okay?

Sen kya. What's it mean in Kamalashila's Bhavana karma? Yeah, in the formal instruction on meditation, when you start to get sleepy, or you start to get tired, you should sen kyapa.

You should give yourself an award. Okay, it's very interesting. And it means, think of something that makes you happy.

Think of your high school boyfriend. You see what I mean? And then you'll get all bright.

It brightens up your mind. Think of pizza after you get home. And then suddenly you don't feel tired.

Okay, it's a very beautiful word. So I was intrigued by what the Sanskrit would be, which is praharsayet, at the last word above. Say praharsayet.

Praharsayet. Yeah, and harsha has all these meanings of your hair bristling up, if you have hair. Okay, and it implies in Sanskrit, from pleasure.

It's like goosebumps coming up, okay? And it means when you're having a lot of pleasure, your hair stands out. It's like my cat birthed that.

Praharsayet, okay. So the Tibetan translation of praharsha is rabga. Say rabga.

Rab du gawa means super happy. Super happy. Okay, rab du gawa.

It's a common monastic name, rabga. Mr. Super Happy. We have another name, rabga.

Okay. English cognates. Next slide.

Harsh is the root, and gers is the Indo-European. And it came into horror because of hair-raising. In English, we say hair-raising, like you watch a Freddie Halloween movie, and you're like, and your hair bristles.

Urchin, Nick will know about urchins, sea urchins. There's those prickly things that you step on it to be... Nick doesn't step on those so much.

He likes to step on stingrays, but it's the same thing. It all comes from harsh and gers. Okay, cool.

Can you go back up? Let's look at the translation. Anyone with intelligence.

That's good. This line says lo dang den means anyone got a brain, which in Matrimony means who's intelligent. It means intelligent.

Okay. Don't forget when you're looking at the Tibetan of this, of his book, it's just translations of Sanskrit, and it may not make sense in Tibetan. Okay, so you've got to be sensitive to Tibetan, which was Sanskrit translated.

Okay, sometimes it doesn't make so much sense in Tibetan. Rab dang, D-V-A-N-G-S, Chandra Samson Ling, you should have. Chu kyang gyepa jang yi chu.

So that even the end of the meditation session will be productive, pump up your mind, center, pump up. Whistle your hair, if you have. Okay, got it?

Okay, next one. I'm trying to get... Oh, that's all you got.

Yeah, okay. All right, the next ones are very, very important, and I'm going to go there. Sorry, share.

Am I, have I got the plane? Okay. Yeah, so, okay, so here's the story, okay?

Grandpa always has a story for empathy, which is why you're hiring me. Okay. Okay.

There's two verses from Shantideva, which are often used to give people bodhisattva love. They're very, very, very famous. So, but if you want to learn a foreign language, it's very good to memorize a few verses.

If you're going to choose one, these two are super powerful. These two. ,THEG DUS DAG ZHIG SBYUR BU YIN MI GZUGS PA LAS PA'I RTOG, ,THEG DUS ZANG GI RIGS KYI SANGS RGYAS BSTAN PA'I RTOG, ,DANG NYID LA GYI GZHIN GYI RIGS PA'I DRUG PA MI GZUGS NAS, ,KHYIM PA'I TSUN MI YIN DE LA YOD PA MI GZUGS PA LAS PA'I RTOG, Very famous, okay?

It should be in your, stored in your atoms, with the nitrogen, carbonate. Okay? So we're going to work on it.

But, and I wanted to tell you a story. We invited my teacher to come to New York and give bodhisattvas. And miraculously, he agreed, because he didn't like New York.

I hate to say it. He got in a car accident once on the way back from New York. So he didn't want to go again.

And we begged him and he finally, he said yes. And then I remember, he said, what's his name's place? Leon's place.

And we put him, we worked hard. We got a throne, all these flowers, and we have mandalas. And he came and he sat down and he goes like this, ,ZUGS NAS, ,KHYIM PA'I TSUN MI YIN DE LA YOD PA MI GZUGS PA LAS PA'I RTOG, ,KYIM PA'I TSUN MI YIN DE LA YOD PA MI GZUGS PA LAS PA'I RTOG, ,KHYIM PA'I TSUN MI YIN DE LA YOD PA MI GZUGS PA LAS PA'I RTOG, ,PHWAG PA YIN RENG YIN GZUGS PA LAS PA'I RTOG, ,CHEN PYIN BA RIN GZUGS PA LAS PA'I RTOG, Okay, sorry.

If you're Arhats, I guess you can use it. But these two verses are very, very famous, and they are the core of a bodhisattva vows ceremony. So core means there's more to it than that.

Anyway, here we go. Who's going to read it? Lindsay?

Nice, nice. Your pronunciation is very good. teng means today.

In this case, teng du means today. dak tse, my life. je bu yip has meaning.

Something finally happened in my life that was meaningful. Now it's... Now my mi sipa is legpa.

Now the fact that I was born as a human. Today only, the fact that I was born into this world has some importance. It means once you commit to bodhicitta, there's some value to taking birth in this world.

And if you don't, there is no value. That's the implication. If you swear to try to act like a bodhisattva, I said try to act, then the fact that you were born has some meaning.

Otherwise you're just meat and you die and that's the end of it. So today, mi sipa legpa tong. Now the fact that I was born as a human has some meaning.

It's very, very powerful and very beautiful. Tiring can also be the word teri. Yeah, today, even in colloquial, right?

Teri, teri. Now I join the kula of the sanghis. Yeah, now I join the family.

Kula is a very, very famous Indian word for family. I think it's connected to kuru in the Kurukshetra, for example. And today I am a sanghi.

Se or se mo? Yeah, I'm a son or daughter of. And can mean prince or princess.

Today I'm a child of the buddhas. Tak teng. Teng means today.

By the way, listen to this variation. Here's Shantideva. Sanghi says tak teng gyur.

And word, here's the traditional recitation nowadays. Sanghi says tak kyur to. I have become, past tense.

And they say, I have become du. And it's very beautiful. It means two seconds after you say this line, you became du, a bodhisattva.

You're in a new family. It's very beautiful. Here it says tak teng gyur.

It's kind of wishy-washy. But the modern recitation is tak gyur to. Tak means now, I'm there.

I'm a bodhisattva. All you did was promise. But it's very beautiful.

Buddha kula. Kula comes from old root kar, which is not the same root as kar to make. There's two kar roots, and one came in to grow, scatter.

The Indo-European is kar grow, kernel, create. That's related to kar. Kar split into two from the Indo-European.

So that's the first half of the super short story. I shouldn't even teach it to you, because somebody's going to try to use it in an airport or something. Many stories of people meeting lamas in the airport.

And they said, can you give me some of those? He said, the flight leaves in two minutes. Okay, Theresa, you're done soon then.

Okay. Who's going to read, Seiji? Pardon me, Seiji.

Very, very famous. Dhani, now. Okay, dhani, now.

da ki, I will... chi ne kyang No matter what. No matter what.

chi ne kyang Okay, say chi ne kyang. chi ne kyang No matter what. chi ne kyang I will...

tsam le Yeah, tsam often means to start off a project. Okay, so I will undertake a way of living, which is tumba with my rig, which fits my new family. Okay, all right?

It's very beautiful. I just joined the family of Buddhists and Bodhisattvas, so now it's incumbent on me not to embarrass my family. Okay, all right?

Very beautiful. Say swa.

[Speaker 2]
Swa.

[Speaker 1]
Kulo.

[Speaker 2]
Kulo.

[Speaker 1]
Chitta.

[Speaker 2]
Chitta.

[Speaker 1]
And it's a nice word, it's nice. Swa is obvious, it means me. My.

Kula means family. Then utchita means rig again. You see what I mean?

Rig to rig. Rig to rig means... The word for family can mean fitting.

And he's playing, he's playing with the Sanskrit, and it's almost impossible to translate into English. I will... How do you say?

I will class my class. You see what I mean? I'll be classy for my class.

It's like I will fit the expectations of my new family. It's very beautiful, and it's a beautiful way to think of the rest of your life when you take Bodhisattva vows. They let me into the family.

It's like a mafia thing. Now I'm in the family, and now I've got to act like it. It's very beautiful, I like this.

Kyunme. This rig is kyunme. Yeah, how do you say no problem in Tibetan?

Say kyunme du. It's a universal sweet thing to say when you meet Tibetans. It's like...

You want to hear a dad joke? I've got to make sure I do this in a politically correct way. Anyway, I don't know.

I was in India waiting in a long line, and there was a British guy behind me. We were all complaining about this long line, and he said... What did he say?

He said, what do you Americans do if the line gets unpleasant? He said, you kick somebody's ass. And he says, in England, when someone kicks your ass in the line, you turn around and say, excuse me, I'm sorry.

Anyway, that's kyunme du. That means, this family I've joined is ridiculously respectful. Kyunme du.

Kyunme means perfect. Tsimba. Tsimba is like Jetson.

You know Jetson? Jetson means high and holy. Jetson.

Say Jetson.

[Speaker 2]
Jetson.

[Speaker 1]
And it's a common address for a high teacher in Asia. Jetson. Jetson Ma is a famous woman teacher of the Sakya lineage, for example.

So Jetson. Jetson Randhawa is Tsongkhapa's teacher. So anyway, Jetson.

Now he's calling that family Jetson. That's a whole family Jetson. And now they've got this loser just joined them.

Okay, okay. Then I promise not to nyokpa. Yeah.

Nyokpa, yeah, it means especially to dirty the waters. Like if you step in a stream and make it muddy. Something like that.

That's called nyokpa. Okay. I will not nyokpa my new family.

I won't sully my new family. Okay. I'll keep it clean.

I will not embarrass my new family. And if you're really sensitive to the ancient language here, tengri dasa dibri, it's a very, very beautiful, powerful thing to say when you take your vows. Look, I'm not a very good person, but I just don't want to mess up the reputation of my family that I just joined.

I'll do my best just not to embarrass all the Buddhas who went before. And it adds pressure to keeping your vows. All right.

And by the way, just those two verses. If you ever want to memorize those two, very, very good thing. And you can get bodhisattva vows easily.

All right. Who's going to read next? By the way, there's a big mistake in the next line, and it took me a long time to figure it out.

Long way. Nice reading. What I'd like to do with this verse, this has several impossible words in it.

And there is a commentary to the Bodhisattva Charya Avatara, and I used it for the three ACI courses. I translated a lot of it in the ACI courses, and I'm not satisfied with it. And so I haven't translated the whole thing.

I have fantasies of writing my own in my spare time. So anyway, on this verse, the commentary is great, because the wording is quite difficult and strange. And the commentary here is amazing.

So I would like to read it together, because it's a beautiful verse. And it was misspelled badly, very badly. It was unintelligible.

And here's Gyeltsabje's commentary. So I'm going to challenge Seiji to read it, and then we'll translate it together. This is his commentary to that last difficult verse.

Go. Nice. Okay, good.

Let's read it together. We have about five minutes. Uru.

Uru means impoverished. Upo means poor person. Let's think like that.

So suppose there's a person who's very poor. And pongpa means broke. Poor and broke.

All right. Longwa, the ancient word for monk is longwa, or nun, a beggar. So longwa, this is a modernized spelling of beggar.

So suppose, I'm sorry, but it also means blind. So let's say there's a blind beggar who's broke. Okay.

And then chakdar. Do you know a word? It means what you sweep up when you sweep a dirty room.

It's the pile of crap that's left over. Okay? Pile of garbage.

He's looking in the garbage, he's dumpster diving, and he's blind. And he's broke. He's blind, he's broke, and he's dumpster diving.

Okay? Pungpo means what? Yeah, like skandha.

But here's the original use of the word. They found a pile of crap. Somebody knocked over a garbage can.

And a blind person, who's hungry, is feeling through the garbage. Okay? Imagine, try to get the picture.

Then he finds a rinchen. He finds a ruby or a diamond in the crap. He's like, ooh, mushy.

Wait, something sharp. Ooh, what's that? And he finds a diamond that was thrown out with the garbage.

Okay? Blind person. Nyepa means found it in the garbage.

Blind person. I'm like them. I'm like that.

It's beautiful, right? This text is unbelievable. Like that, ji shik tar means exactly the same.

Now, te is either terribly misspelled, or it doesn't make any sense at all. There's no such word. Okay?

And there is an extremely rare word. I like these words because they're the only ones that word doesn't know. So I still feel like I can teach them some.

Say, te wang. Te wang. Te wang means by sheer dumbass good luck.

And it's occasionally used in modern colloquial. Te wang. It means by sheer stupid good luck.

Like a beggar going through the garbage, finds a diamond. A blind beggar finds a diamond. That's called te wang.

Like effing good luck. So te wang means, you know, by unbelievable good luck. I got chan juk gi sem rim pa chuk.

Yeah, I found the jewel of bodhichitta. I just took vows with the last two verses. Now, I supposedly have generated this intention in my heart, and I just found a new diamond.

It's in the garbage. What's the garbage again? Your heart.

It's very powerful. It's very powerful. I just was messing around with the squishy stuff here, and I found a jewel that just popped out there.

It's very beautiful. Inside of me has grown this jewel. Whose fault is that?

Why did it happen? It's tu. Tu.

Tu means mystical power, and it also means a curse. Tu gyab is what Milarepa did to kill all those people. It means mystical.

It means black magic sometimes, but sometimes it means white magic. Here it says sang gye gyi tu. Yeah, that must be the white magic of the tu.

What? In that squishy organ, the jewel of bodhichitta has just popped up, and I'm a blind beggar who can touch it now, and feel it, and I'm so lucky. It's very beautiful.

He says ngey par. Ngey par means it's not through any virtue of mine. It's definitely the Buddha's fault.

Ngey par sang gye means it's definitely the Buddha dropped a diamond in the garbage can by accident, and I'm just some fool just hit it by good luck, like the turtle in the ocean. Okay, cool. I like it.

We're out of time. Okay, Seiji, next time, 28 and 29, okay? And 30, since you're all grown up now.

Okay, 28, 29, 30. If you... I'll give a hundred bucks to anybody who can recite to me those two verses.

Forever. Okay? But not the same verses every week.

Okay? If anybody with their eyes closed can recite those two verses to me, I'll give them a hundred bucks, for as long as I have a hundred bucks. Okay?

I may run out. Okay, understood? What number are they?

25 and 26. 25 and 26, okay? If you're not sure how to get a hold of them, ask Seiji.

In Tibetan, in Tibetan. Okay, deal? Mazal?

Mazal? Come on, you can... Anytime in the future that I'm still around, I don't extend the offer to my next life.

Okay? Anytime in the next, you know, whenever. If you can say, Geshe-la, I did it, I got those two lines, I'll give you a hundred bucks.

Those two verses, sorry. Two verses. I said one time.

Okay? I like the gyurto, personally. If you're not sure how to recite it, ask Seiji.

He knows the right one. Okay? Mazal?

Say mazal. Mazal. Mazal means, okay, it's a deal.

You can always bail out. This is not my country. Okay?

Okay. All right, are we good? Yeah, yeah.

Oh, now everybody's interested. Not in English. I said 25 and 27.

Sanskrit's okay. You can recite it to Christina. That's 25.

Take a photo. It's a $50 photo. Suddenly Rosa's kind of used to it.

Okay, can I do 26 now? This could get expensive. I'm trusting your laziness, okay?

All right. Thank you. Thank you, Geshe-la.

Thank you, Seiji. Yeah, did somebody say Geshe-la? Except you.

Oh, that's a good question. What do you think? Adya.

Adya. Not Adya. Adya.

And it's repeated twice, right? Tengdu and Tiring. Okay?

Adya, Adya. Cool? Thanks, Christina.

Thank you. Okay, see you later.